U+A74C "Ꝍ" Latin Capital Letter O with Loop Unicode Character

U+A74C "Ꝍ" Latin Capital Letter O with Loop is a historical medieval Latin letter, classified under the Latin Extended-D block, which features an open loop or hook attached to the upper right side of the standard capital letter O. This character was employed in certain Old English and Middle English orthographic traditions, as well as in Old Norse manuscripts, to represent specific phonetic values or as an abbreviation in scribal abbreviations. Its digital inclusion allows for accurate representation and study of early medieval texts, preserving the typographical nuances of handwritten manuscripts from that period.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A74C
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Capital Letter O with Loop
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꝍ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꝍ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9D 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA74C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A74C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua74c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"ꝍ" U+A74D Latin Small Letter O with Loop
Lowercase Code Point	"ꝍ" U+A74D Latin Small Letter O with Loop
Simple Case Folding	"ꝍ" U+A74D Latin Small Letter O with Loop
Case Folding	"ꝍ" U+A74D Latin Small Letter O with Loop
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꝍ" U+A74D Latin Small Letter O with Loop
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꝍ" U+A74D Latin Small Letter O with Loop
Script	Latin
Script Extensions	Latin
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Upper